Consumption of alcohol by blind people
International Journal of Development Research
Consumption of alcohol by blind people
Received 20th July, 2020; Received in revised form 29th August, 2020; Accepted 03rd September, 2020; Published online 30th October, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Fernanda Jorge Guimarães et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The study aims to analyze the pattern of alcohol consumption by blind people. Cross-sectional study, with 31 blind people registered in Family Health Units. A identification questionnaire and the AUDIT test were used to collect data. Data were analyzed using the statistical software. The average age was 66.48 years, 67.7% were male, 38.7% were married, 41.9% were illiterate, 93.5% had no employment, 90.6% had family income between 1 and 3 minimum wages, 64.5% were Catholic, and 58.1% lived with siblings, grandchildren and nephews. Over 50% of participants had acquired the blindness. The causes were retinal detachment, glaucoma, cataract and occupational accident. 19% consume alcohol. 83.3% make low risk use of alcohol and 16.7% make hazardous risk use. Age, religion and occupation is associated with alcohol consumption among the blind users of the family health unit. The results underline the practice of health professionals to carry out prevention actions.
